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Socioecinomic crisis solved everyone! Just build a castle for the ultra rich in the fucking sky, so they never have to touch those disgusting commoners!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Daily reminder that it started as a post on r/worldbuilding

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, this was a pretty cool concept for world building and fiction. I'd love to read that novel or webseries if the /r/worldbuilding poster went forward with this concept. Not so much IRL though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good idea actually. Of course, the "disgusting commoners" are the ones with the AA-missles. One hit would take out so much human refuse!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't even bother. Just watch them slowly whither away from radiation toxicity. A way worse fate than getting blown up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Good argument!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

There's actually a book coming out about how super-rich individuals keep investing in foolish fantasies about creating a secluded colony or space home or whatever. Should be here in October, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Oh great, Elysium was definitely the Sci-fi movie I wanted to see come true. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't trust anything Thunderf00t makes. He's an anti-feminist and anti LGBT+ bigot. Don't give that vile shitbag any attention.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While that's true, his science stuff is still okay and pretty easy to follow along with (meaning, easy to fact check). You can consume someone's scientific content without liking their political beliefs at all, because this field of science, physics, is objective.

If you stay on an Invidious instance like the link I've posted, you also get no ads, so you don't give him ad revenue if you just really hate his guts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He denounced his "antifeminism" a few years ago. He even made videos condemning people like Sargon of Akkad as frauds.

Sure, he's a liberal, but his channel was always about exposing fraud masquerading as science. And in that regard he has produced some really valuable content.

Watch his "antifeminism" videos and it's quite obvious he mainly had issues with people using feminism and LGBTQ+ causes for personal gain, money and as a tool for attacking political opponents and groups, i.e. Liberal identity politics.